flophouse

They dress in clothing from the flophouse lost-and-found and are groomed with a hacksaw and gravel rake.

In his hand is a Bloody Mary, and his eyelids hang down his face like two broken blinds in a flophouse.

The theater job proves temporary, and after weeks of couch surfing McClear finds a bed at a flophouse called the Malibu Hotel.

The walls were paper-thin, and he could hear all comings-and-goings at his end of the flophouse.

The air of the city's cheapest flophouse was thick with the smells of harsh antiseptic and unwashed bodies.